Improved medicine for the cure of erysipelas



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

H. A. LAMB, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

IM PROVED MEDICINE FOR THE CURE O F ER YSIPELAS- Specification formingpart of Letters Patent N0. 48,567, dated July 4, 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it'known that I, H. A. LAMB, of Portland,

' in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine, have invented anddiscovered a new and useful Compound of Medicines for the Cure ofErysipelas; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exactdescription of the same, which will enable others skilled in the art tocompound, make, and use the same. I

The object of my invention is to produce a medicine to be externallyapplied to the parts efi'ected, which will effect a prompt and permanentcure of erysipelas.

My invention consists of the following ingredients compounded iutheproportions and manner hereinafter described-viz., simple cerate, orlard; ferri sulphas, or the sulphate of iron, and the oil of bergamot.

The proportions in which I mix myinven- 'tion are as follows, viz: Itake one ounce of simple cerate, three and one-half drams of ferrisulphas, and twenty drops of the oil of bergamot. These ingredients Icarefully mix,

and then rub them together in a mortar or other vessel. The medicine canbe mixed in larger quantities if the same proportions are preserved. Themedicine is best preservedin glass bottles tightly corked. It is appliedto the inflamed and swollen parts with such frequency as the'severity ofthe disease may require. My rule has been to apply it once in threehours in a severe case of phlegmoneous, and once in four hours in casesof cutaneous,

